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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This edge-of-your-seat page turner recounts the adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, the first American pilots to fight in WWI for the French military, and how they went down in history with other legendary flying aces, like the Red Baron and his Flying Circus.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A one hundredth anniversary tribute introduces World War I's key events, major battles, and most prominent players, incorporating informative photography, maps, and an interactive glossary.
Author
Publisher
Carlton Books Limited
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This book tells the dramatic story of The First World War of 1914-1918. Packed with facts, photographs, documents and maps, it brings the key events vividly to life. From the horrors of trench warfare, through to the use of new, modern weapons, such as warplanes, tanks and deadly poison gas, discover the real history of this colossal conflict.
4) Canary Girls
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"James Falconer--a tycoon and a self-made man--seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has set...